So, it decimates your industry, plus we don't have the ability to clean up most of these abandoned mines.
We end up carrying the burden, and especially in a situation such as the one we faced in Montana...
So, oil, gas, coal, solar, wind, livestock, logging, and outdoor recreation all pay to use the public lands, but mining does not.
And do you think that if we don't have a dedicated hardrock abandoned mine land fund, we could ever come close to cleaning up the scale of c...
In your testimony, you identified the lack of royalties as one of the biggest problems with the Mining Law of 1872.
Fifty billion dollars?
I don't understand how the Trump administration's proposed budget cuts to this office would help DOE accomplish this enormous mission.
So, Secretary White, we look forward to working with you to make sure that it actually happens this time.
Cleanup of these sites is critically important. We need to have it happen, and we can't be sitting here again in 5, 10, or 20 years hoping t...
I remain concerned that EM lacks sufficient staff, expertise, and resources--most importantly, resources--to accomplish the tasks.
I think that robocalls by politicians maybe should be even more illegal than robocalls from everybody else.